On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
Web Guru/ Communications Manager/ Interaction Designer Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and So…
Two new places I'm hoping to talk about this: (1) This Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law Colloquia on Personal Presses - The Legal Rea…
Bruce Scheier sums up the debacle of Secure Flight. The latest straw is a GAO Report that finds TSA collected and used commercial information in violation of i…
There's Sex In My Violence! What's this lame soft-core porn doing in my ultraviolent "Grand Theft Auto"? I am outraged! By Mark Morford, SF Ga…
Someone took Dave Farber's Interesting People list and turned it into a blog. The simplest way to do this was to subscribe a Blogger.com posting address to…
I spent quite a bit of time yesterday watching the Patriot Act debates on C-SPAN. I've seen a lot of debates and this one took the cake for grandstanding m…
The House voted to extend the USA Patriot Act, making permanent 14 of 16 provisions and making the remaining 2 provisions (regarding roving wiretaps and another…
The uproar over the easter egg (hidden program/content) found on the Grand Theft Auto videgame, and it's subsequnt re-classification as an adult-only game s…
Deadline for application for 2005-2006 Non-Residential Fellows is August 20, 2005. CIS Non-Residential Fellows work independently and with CIS staff and facult…
It looks like the Justice Dept. Opposes Shield for Reporters, which is unfortunate. Even more so is that according to this article, the hearing today apparentl…
さて、米国とは著作権法の伝統が違う欧州（大陸）の動きは、日本としても勉強になるはず、と思いながら、なかなか、どこから取り掛かってよいものやら。 と、思いながら、元同級生であるドイツの若手ホープの一人であるStefan Bechtoldに、時々欧州情報をもらっている私です。 先日は、「政府の役割」をめぐって議論してい…
(or it will be if the Senate agrees.) BTW: He was one of the judges on the Verizon panel. From AP RIAA Tactics Under Scrutiny. Judge John Roberts of the U.S…